Jimmy Lai may testify at Legco hearing over lawmakers' alleged failure to declare donations
Legco probe into two lawmakers begins as three others are cleared of allegations
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is likely to be invited to a Legislative Council hearing to testify on his purported donations to two pan-democratic lawmakers who failed to declare the sums.
Investigations into complaints against lawmakers Lee Cheuk-yan, of the Labour Party, and Leung Kwok-hung, of the League of Social Democrats, have already begun and "people who are involved" will be invited to a hearing, said Ip Kwok-him, chairman of the Legco committee on members' interests.
He did not name the boss, but added: "Legco has the power to summon witnesses."
Lai said last night he would "definitely" attend the meeting if he was invited.
Ip made the announcement yesterday after the committee released a report on similar allegations against three other pan-democrats, concluding the complaints against two of them were "unsubstantiated" and no further investigation of any of the three was necessary.
The committee started "preliminary considerations" last year after leaked documents suggested the five lawmakers - including the Civic Party's Alan Leong Kah-kit and Claudia Mo Man-ching and Democrat James To Kun-sun - each received donations from Lai but failed to declare the sums with Legco.
